The 24th annual "World Report" summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2013 by Human Rights Watch staff in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. "World Report 2014" gives particular focus on the roles-positive or negative-played in each country by key domestic and international figures. This year's report includes contributions from Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno, David Mepham, and Dinah PoKempner, with an introduction by Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth assessing the year's most pressing human rights issue.